You have to be careful about saying you can just cut rates without much more information.

What we have found working with our Dawn Pluribus strip till units regarding reduced fertilizer rates is this:

If you do soil tests and send them to a Unive3rsity lab, usually they will come back with a University recommendation based on broadcast fertilizer for a given expected yield.

GENERALLY, you can reduce those rates by about 1/3 if you apply the fertilizer in a band and also when and where needed.

You should not think that you can go out in the fall and put all of your N down in a strip as say urea at 1/3 less than the University lab recommendation and expect it all to be there next July when the plant needs it...

We find that you can raise some VERY good corn through much of the US corn belt with 0.7 units of N per bushel of dry corn yield if you put it down when and where the plant needs it.

Here is a picture of a SE ND customer who puts all of his N, P & K down as dry in the strip in the spring here shown in corn on corn. He strips for flowers into corn and I beleive some 30" beans into corn also.

Regards,

Jim at Dawn

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